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1967: Bob Long caught an 80-yard touchdown in 1967 to guide the Aggies to a Southwest Conference Title and a Cotton Bowl birth at the Longhorn's expense. T-K-O founder Marlin Smith '73 was visiting his older brother during his fish year and was sitting near the goal line Long crossed for the winning score.

1975: Bubba Bean, George Woodard and the Aggies were led by Emory Bellard and won the battle of the wishbone against a Darrell Royal led Horns squad featuring the Tyler Rose Earl Campbell.




1985: Jackie Sherrill's Aggies followed up their breakthrough 1984 win in Austin with a 42-10 SWC and Cotton Bowl clenching win that officially announced an era of dominance over their rivals from Austin and signaled the beginning of the end for Fred Akers on the 40 Acres.

1999: A game that stands out from any other for every reason that has nothing to do with football. We were there and shared in the tears and hugs and none of us will ever forget it.

2006: Stephen McGee, Javorskie Lane, and Mike Goodson confounded the defending national champion Longhorns with a power option attack. Mark Dodge, Michael Bennet, and the Aggie Wrecking Crew introduced itself to freshman Colt McCoy.

2010: Cyrus Gray rushed for 223 yards and scores of 84 and 48 yards to power the Aggies to a share of the Big 12 South Title and cap a 6-win late season surge after starting the year 3-3.

Gig'em and BTHO t.u.!
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Bonfire & The Drive both happened on a Friday. Are we talking about the game or just Turkey Day games?

Marcus Buckley's pick six to open the game in '91

2006 was my fish year. It was the first A&M-tu game I ever watched, and as mentioned above, sips were defending champs* We had also lost to OU and Nebraska by 1 point each so when we missed the PAT on our TD, deja vu started creeping in. Fortunately, McGee got in again and we shut Colt down.

2007 was the first A&M-tu game I got to attend in person. We weren't having a good year and Fran was likely done. But we came out swinging and even ran a fake FG for a TD. We held on to make it two in a row vs sip but Fran didn't hold onto his job.

2010 - "Cyrus Gray on his way!" and the Von Miller interception. Ags take 2 of the last 3 in Austin and hopefully make it 3 of 4 this week.

Cyrus Gray going off in 2010!

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November 2007. Had a groupnof us Veterans at our duplex celebrating Thanksgiving together. Made smoked turkey, sides, you name it. We invited others that didnt make it home for the holiday due to the game. Started off as a chill night with about 7 or 8 of us. Then, a friend showed up to see what we were up to. She invited a few friends over. They invited a few friends over. And so on.

Before we knew it, we had the Sip and Ags womens tennis teams there hanging with about 50 of us. No clue where the rest of the food and drink came from but it seemed to never run out. Was an incredible night for all of us.

We won. 38-30

Gamble Recovery - Bonfire

The Pick Six in Austin in 91

Lectric Leeland in the Sleet in 92 to the House

Cyrus Gray in Austin to Finish Them

2006 my senior year 12-7

1979 game at Kyle watching Curtis Dickey burn a path to the goal line on a halfback pass play where he kept the ball after the tu defense separated like the red sea to cover the potential receivers. 13-7 Ags.

12-7 because I watched it with my Aggie dad

It was the Friday after Thanksgiving, 1999. The Bonfire game.

I was living in a house on Milam St. About 3/4 of a mile from Stack the night Bonfire collpsed. I woke up to the sounds of sirens screaming the night the stack fell. The next morning, in room 101 of a building that has recently been demolished on the Vet School campus, as I learned just how bad it had been, our entire class mourned.

My best friends little brother was supposed to be on stack with his crew that night but his brother was in town and we convinced him to no show and come to the chicken with us. I can't tell you how many times I've thought about how grateful I am for that.

From the night the Bonfire collapsed, right up to kick off, I don't think anybody on campus knew what the game was going to be like. It was a somber time. There was random crying, a lot of hugging, but not very many smiles.

On game day, walking to Kyle Field was quiet. So unusually quiet that it was uncomfortable. No looks of excitement. No BTHOtu. No Howdy's. Just students and former students filing into their places to watch a game that we all needed more than we knew.

From the time I took my place standing on the first deck of the student section right up until kick off, I almost couldn't believe they were actually going to play the game.

But they did. And from the second that ball was kicked off, and the game began, the 12th man and the entirety of Kyle Field began to yell. There was such a sense of relief, of being able to breath again, of being the 12th man.

Bumgardner's catch for the go ahead TD and the Applewhite Fumble forced by J. Brooks to win the game was the most joy any Aggie at Kyle that day had know in that past 10 days, but it felt like much longer. And for the first time in 10 days, we felt like we could go on.

This Friday when the Ags BTHO tu to finish a perfect regular season!

1976, my wife was due with our second child. I had a classmate staying with us and another came to pick us up. He took me aside and told me it's just a football game and if anything goes wrong, you'll never forgive yourself. I took his advice and stayed home. I was creedal Aggie, born while my class of 1950 dad was at A&M. All my life I had the idea that the birth of my son would keep me from seeing us beat t.u. in Austin. Sure, enough it did.

1985, the aforementioned son is now 9 and we go to the t.u. game with my mother and dad. Before the game I take him to the bathroom, and he runs off and I get paged to a Red Cross tent to pick him up. My dad takes him just before half time. He pulls the same stunt, and my dad misses the FTAB and an early third quarter touchdown. The boy makes it back to us alone and my dad shows up just as we're about to kick off. I'd seen that look in my dad's eyes a few times over the years. I told my son to snuggle up to his grandmother and give his heart to Jesus
because his butt belonged to his granddad. About that time, Mr. Flowers intercepted and dad got back into the game. Someday, I hope to shake hands with Mr. Flowers and thank him for saving my son's life. My son took the scenic route to A&M. He's class 2018.

This year when we stomp out any chance of t.u making the playoffs!

Beating tu in Austin 12-7 in 2006. It was the first time I was able to watch us beat tu in football as an Aggie and my family didn't stop hearing from me talk about the game since I had to put up with my family celebrating tu winning the national championship.

"First down, TOUCHDOWN TEXAS A&M!"

Brian Gamble's fumble recovery to seal the game.

1987 and t.u. couldn't run a play because of our crowd noise. Pretty sure it was the all-time attendance record until the Zone was built at 78.573. My ticket was on the last row of the 3rd deck, and there were two rows of students behind me. The most crowded I ever saw Kyle Field and the loudest.

That 06 game was mine. Went to all those games home and away as a student. That was the first one as a former student and it'll be an all time memory coming back to that!

Ags06Win said:

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Gamble Recovery - Bonfire

The Pick Six in Austin in 92

Lectric Leeland in the Sleet in 93 to the House

Cyrus Gray in Austin to Finish Them

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FIFY

So many good ones but one I haven't seen mentioned that is an Aggie classic was Antonio Armstrong destroying James Brown and Brandon Mitchell catching the fumble in mid air and returning it 50 yards for a touchdown in Austin in '94.

Go to the 24:18 mark



In '04 I proposed to my girlfriend in front of the t.u. tower (she was a sip) after the Corps marched up Congress. I found a bunch of guys in my old outfit before hand and asked them to make a saber arch for her to walk under as I was down on a knee at the other end. Great mix of Aggie and sip stuff.
She's now my ex wife so I wasted a pretty badass proposal on her.

The very end of the Bonfire Game.

Favorite Turkey Day memory? My mom passed at 96 years old and my favorite Turkey Day memories will be her Pecan and Pumpkin pies. All made from scratch. Oh my goodness, the crust. Despite a win or loss, I won.

1999 for sure. A friend, a cousin and I decided literally last minute to drive from Round Rock to the game after Thanksgiving lunch with family, without tickets, to see if we could find tickets outside the stadium.
Met a guy outside that offered us "pass out tickets" for $25 each. When I said, "$25!!!", I think he thought I was saying it was too high, so he lowered the price to $20. And to show us it wasn't a scam, escorted us into the stadium before we payed him.
We stood in an aisle looking down the goal line in what was then "The Zone". Aside from the defense being a menace all day, Ja'Mar Toombs had a touchdown when he barely reaches his arm across the goal line (where we were) and the stadium erupted like I had never experienced before. Everyone had a tear in their eye, and the noise was deafening.

I'll take that memory to the grave.

1994 - I started dating my wife of 30 years who happened to be in the t-sip band (we met at church)!
The Aggies had been so dominant for the past 12 years, I gladly accepted the offer to be her guest at memorial stadium while she participated in her alumni band activities.

After the Aggies dominated and won 34-10, we were walking back to the t.u. band hall. One of the former t-sip band members ahead of us yelled at the top of his voice "God, I hate losing to those damned Aggies", at which point I started to laugh. Twenty sets of burnt orange wearing eyes fixed on me, and my then girlfriend just ducked her head.

It gave me a sense of how much they hate to lose to the Ags, no matter how aloof they try to act. And, that's exactly what we're going to do to them tomorrow, Aggies! BTHO t.u.!

dabo man said:

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1987 and t.u. couldn't run a play because of our crowd noise. Pretty sure it was the all-time attendance record until the Zone was built at 78.573. My ticket was on the last row of the 3rd deck, and there were two rows of students behind me. The most crowded I ever saw Kyle Field and the loudest.

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I was at that game.....upper deck, second row.

1967-I was in high school and a lifelong Aggie. They had beaten us every year of my grade school and middle school life. I didn't know if we were ever gonna beat them but thanks to Ed Hargett and Bob Long ,
We did it. It ended my years of frustration and we beat Bama in the Cotton Bowl.

Eating Thanksgiving at Luby's on Texas pregame. Parking in the lot where University Garage now stands. We stayed warm in the car until we heard the band and Corps approaching. Than trekking up the ramp to the cold and wind on 3rd deck, 25 yard line. Then having my hands so cold I couldn't button my 501s after urinating in the same trough with a bunch of grown men. None of it mattered when the final canon went off and the air was filled with cotton balls!!

Several memorable ones for me mentioned already so I'll go with one surely no one will use. 2008 in Austin. Absolutely dreadful ending to a really bad season. However, I will always remember road tripping to Austin with my future wife and us having our own Thanksgiving day tailgate starring Buc-es's turkey jerky.